Agriculture Act 1947

[F1 80 Restriction on disclosure of information. S

No information relating to any particular land or business, being information which has been obtained under section seventy-eight or seventy-nine of this Act, shall be published or otherwise disclosed without the previous consent in writing of the person by whom the information was furnished and every other person whose interests may in the opinion of the Minister be affected by the disclosure, being an owner or the occupier of the land:

Provided that nothing in this section shall restrict the disclosure of information—

(a) to the Minister in charge of any Government department, to any authority acting under an enactment for regulating the marketing of any agricultural produce, or to any person exercising functions on behalf of any such Minister or authority for the purpose of the exercise of those functions;

(b) to an authority having power under any enactment to give permission for the development of land, for the purpose of assisting that authority in the preparation of proposals relating to such development or in considering whether or not to give such permission;

(c) if the disclosure is confined to situation, extent, number and kind of livestock, character of land, and name and address of owner and occupier, to any person to whom the Minister considers that the disclosure thereof is required in the public interest;

(d) to any person for the purposes of any criminal proceedings under the next following section or for the purposes of any report of such proceedings,or the use of information in any manner which the Minister thinks necessary or expedient in connection with the maintenance of the supply of food in the United Kingdom.]

[F2 (e) to the Food Standards Agency for purposes connected with the carrying out of any of its functions,]

[F3 (f) to Food Standards Scotland for purposes connected with the carrying out of any of its functions,]

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 80 repealed (E.W.) by Agricultural Statistics Act 1979 (c. 13), Sch. 2

F2 Para. (e) in proviso to s. 80 inserted (1.4.2000) by 1999 c. 28, s. 40(1), Sch. 5 para. 2 (with ss. 38, 40(2)); S.I. 2000/1066, art. 2

F3 S. 80(f) inserted (S.) (1.4.2015) by Food (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 1), s. 63(2), sch. para. 1 (with s. 62); S.S.I. 2015/99, art. 2